These are places I get inspiration

A wonderful place to get cottage pieces to decorate for the every seasons of the years. You will fine linen that is unique

That's So Shabby has lovely Painted Furniture. I love the scriptures on the site.

At So Shabby Pink there are some romantic decoration beautiful boxes with cabbage rose carving for housing your linen pieces

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Using Photo Editing Software In Scrapbooking Discussion 1

Digital photography is quickly becoming widespread in our society and as a result of that photo editing software is also drawing a lot of attention. A

photo editing software allows you to improve your digital images. For example, you can crop them, remove red-eye, change colors or contrast, and even add and delete elements. You can crop the photograph to emphasize the key part. Reduce the size of the photograph to make it smaller for posting on the Web or e-mailing. Use filters to sharpen it or even make it look like a watercolor or oil painting. Stitch together multiple frames to create 360 degree panoramas. Merge two images to create a 3D stereo effect, or an animated image for display on the Web. Change brightness and contrast to improve the image. You can also cut and paste parts of one image into another to create a photo montage, or convert the photograph to another format (like from JPEG to GIF). Installing is like having a darkroom with the lights on and without the chemicals.




Photo editing software is great for scrapbooking. I use it for that and other artistic applications. Here are some examples of what you can do with

photo editing software .


I used the path tool to take kitty from her backyard background and to create the following looks. The Paths tool allows to create complex selections called Bézier Curves, a bit like Lasso but with all the adaptability of vectorial curves. You can edit your curve, you can paint with your curve, or even save, import, and export the curve.


Putting kitty in different backgrounds


























I cropped the picture to get a focal point of kitty's head.
I used the path tool to change one of her eye's color just to give you an idea of what a photo editing software can do.



more change in kitty background again


here is another change I like to do in my pictures. I put a little color in that one eye






Photo editing software is a great tool to add different elements to a photo. I love how you can manipulate images to what ever you imagine. Check out my next discussion. Please if you have any thoughts to add leave me a comment.

Roses AND Foxglove

This beautiful bouquet of flowers filled with roses and rosebuds of pink, red, yellow, orange on a bed of rich green leaves. I painted the background in acrylic paint and the roses in layers of oil. The container is painted with Prussian blue and silver metallic accent. The color are bright and vivid. This painting influenced by french country, shabby chic, cottage chic,and folk art style. Be the one to take this little darling to your home or office. It would look lovely in any setting. Get it as a gift.


I have placed it on auction at ebay There are two lovely bouquet of flowers. One is filled with roses and rosebuds of pink, red, yellow on a bed of rich green leaves.The other with red pink foxgloves I painted the background in acrylic paint and the roses in layers of oil. The two boutiques sit on a table covered in old lace..This painting influenced by french country, shabby chic, cottage chic,and folk art style.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was first published in 1813.Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel. It is one of my favorite. Pride and Prejudice is a sharp humorous and telling of mannerism played out in early 19th Century English society. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day. The title Pride and Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. This classic tells of the initial misunderstandings (and mutual enlightenment) between the two through deceit, misunderstanding and the weaving of other relationships throughout the story.

click the heading to go to my ebay for the audio book for $4.95 very inexpensive

He is My Rose of Sharon

This was inspired by the idea of Christ as the Rose Of Sharon his sweetness, The Cross, his thorny crown and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove. I was also reading the Song of Solomon 2. That is a very passionate book. I have posted it to ebay this week. Rose of Sharon the plant is Hibiscus syriacus. It isn't a rose, but its large, flat blossoms and nectar attract hummingbirds and tiny insects that hummers also eat

More painting inspired by French country, shabby chic, and cottage chic style

Painting inspired by French country, shabby chic, and cottage chic style

My newest painting for the week of June 14 ebay Listing

Here is one my French Shabby Cottage Roses Palette Knife 8"X 10" with a little Palette knife technique. I like a little texture in my paintings. I like to feel the painting. My nana became blind when I was about 8 years old. She had to rebuild her life. She used her hands to see our faces as we grew up. I like that everyone can see the roses.

Here is another painting my French Shabby Cottage Abstract Roses with a little Palette knife technique

I didn't use a palette knife with this one. I like its outcome.

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Folk Art Painting "Cherry Blossoms on the Potomac"

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My shabby painting up for auction this week. I love pink.

Shabby chic painting

Shabby chic painting I just finished

My Pink Shabby Chic Rose Painting

This is my shabby chic pink rose painting. it is 18 x 24 x 3/4 inches.This is an Abstract oil and acrylic painting. I used palette Knife to paint the flowers. I like the texture with layers of oil. These rose and friends will make room or any environment happy.

Barack Hussein Obama, America's first black president, giving hope in his presence and speech. This is the American I thought I would never see. I thought about the 60's although a child suffering experienced of tear gas for three days. My little eyes burned for a week with this gaseous substance. My mother applied cold clothes to my eyes repeatedly. Our neighborhood was a mixture of people from many different places those who where middle class lived in the larger houses but we all suffered the same fate. Today was the resolve of America that says yes we have. A cry for joy for it is Character and not the color of the skin. I am going to bed now with big joy in my heart. "Only in America"

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas!

My new shabby artistic pieces

My latest painted shabby roses. I painted on office supplies. I thought it would make a nice gift or a stocking stuffer for someone who loves the them.

New Image Power Of The Cross

I imagined this image the fire or power of the cross, the power of Christ to bring salvation to the world by giving his life. I read
1 Corinthians 1:18

Autumn in North Carolina

Looking Out of the Window in North Carolina, I saw all of these beautiful colors. The trees color palette are rich and jeweled. When my children where small they would go outside,jump in the leaf pile I'd just gathered for my compost. At first I'd be a little peeved but I could not help but laugh because those kids where so cute. They would even get the neighborhood kids involved. I soon gave them the job of gathering leave (Oh did the tide turn).
This painting came of those images and is being offered on eBay.

My Son Finding His Way

Yesterday I watched My son sleeping. He is so quiet these days. Sometimes I hear him calling out in his sleep. I woke him up and he looks at my puzzled. He is a Quadriplegic on a vent. I tried to get him to talk to me, friends, or a professional. He just brush it off and says I worry to much. He became a quadriplegic two days before his 13Th birthday. The doctors never found the cause of it. "If I could" is the song that plays in my heart. I try to be upbeat for him but in actuality he is my encouragement.

Needed Sunshine

I yellow is such a happy color so you know I had to paint my yellow roses. I started painting this picture channeling happy thoughts after hearing news of the banking bailout. Why are we the taxpayers the scape goats? Why can't some of this money go directly to homeowners forgiving some of the mortgage debt? I needed to divert my mind. Yellow was my color. There needs to be more oversight of the banking industry. I am praying. If you would like to purchase a print click the title
What do you think about bail out?

It's My World

This is my latest Design at cafepress. It my Gothic side. It kind of pretty goth. You can purchase this design by clicking the title.

Poppies Poppies

This painting of poppies in a field and me daydreaming about a place in North Carolina.Click the title to purchase a print.